Dung Beetle has the efficacy of calming fright, breaking blood stasis, laxative, and attacking toxins, and can be used to treat epilepsy, seizures and other conditions.
Dung Beetle, also known as Pusher Bug, Dung Pusher Bug, Cow Dung Bug, Dung Ball Bug, etc., is the dried body of Dung Beetle, an insect of the Golden Turtle family. It is salty in taste, cold in nature, poisonous, and enters the liver, stomach and large intestine meridians. Clinically, it is mostly used for treating symptoms such as obstruction in the abdomen (lumps in women’s lower abdomen), choking and regurgitation, abdominal distension and constipation, chancre, bloody diarrhea and gonorrhea.
Dung Beetle is used to treat sores and hemorrhoids, can be roasted and powdered, and applied with oil. It should not be taken by pregnant women.
Although dung beetle can be used to treat a variety of diseases, it must be used on the basis of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis. Moreover, the way of administering dung beetles for different diseases may have certain differences, so strictly follow the doctor’s instructions and apply dung beetles with the correct usage in order to make the drug exert its due efficacy.